fromA BIBLIOGRAPHY OF LITERARY THEORY, CRITICISM AND PHILOLOGY

http://www.unizar.es/departamentos/filologia_inglesa/garciala/bibliography.htmlby José Ángel GARCÍA LANDA

(University of Zaragoza, Spain)

FUNCTION OF LITERATURE

Amorós, Andrés. "El arca de la literatura (Francisco Ayala: El jardín de las delicias)." (El arte). In Amorós, Momentos mágicos de la literatura. Madrid: Castalia, 1999. 337-44.*

Bataille, Georges. La literatura como lujo. Madrid, 1993.Boyd, Brian. On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition, and

Fiction. Cambridge (MA) and London: Harvard UP-Belknap Press, 2009.* (Book I: Evolution, Art, and Fiction – Part 1, Evolution and Nature, Part 2, Evolution and Art, Part 3, Evolution and Fiction; Book II: From Zeus to Seuss: Origins of Stories— Part 4, Phylogeny: The Odyssey, Part 5: Ontogeny: Horton Hears a Who!).http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/BOYORI.html2009

Domínguez Caparrós, José. "Capítulo I. Definición de la literatura. Sus funciones." In Domínguez Caparrós, Teoría de la Literatura. Madrid: Centro de Estudios Ramón Areces, 2002. 14-32.*

Eco, Umberto. "Sur quelques fonctions de la littérature." Magazine littéraire 392 (Nov. 2000): 58-62.*

_____. "Sobre algunas funciones de la literatura." In Eco, Sobre literatura. Barcelona: RqueR editorial, 2002. 9-24.*

Holland, Norman. "26. Why Literature?" In Holland, Literature and the Brain. Gainesville (FL): PsyArt Foundation, 2009. 342-59.*

Iser, W. "Changing Functions in Literature." London Germanic Studies 3. Ed. J. P. Stern. London, 1986. 162-79.

Reiss, Timothy J. The Meaning of Literature. (1992 Forkosch prize in intellectual history; Choice best Academic Book of 1993)

Sugiyama, Michelle Scalise. "On the Origins of Narrative: Storyteller Bias as a Fitness-Enhancing Strategy." Human Nature 7 (1996): 403-425.

See also Definition of literature.